Living: April 2014

Pope Francis has reportedly called for a meeting of the world's bishops later this year to debate issues like contraception and marriage. But don't expect any sweeping doctrinal reforms to emerge.Read More

This week, HRC President Chad Griffin appeared on "Morning Joe" to discuss the LGBT movement's strategic pivot towards the Deep South. Instead, they mostly discussed the controversial new book "Forcing the Spring."Read More

In another landmark advancement of LGBT rights from the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Education issued guidance today making clear that Title IX prohibits discrimination against transgender students.Read More

For Alex, dysphoria and depression go hand in hand. Hence, while the feel of the picture, conveyed by pose, lighting, and setting, speaks to depression, many of the specific details reflect the dysphoria, and the stresses of being trans*Read More

Dan Haseltine, lead singer of the enduringly popular and three-time Grammy Award-winning Christian rock band Jars of Clay, came out in support of marriage equality this week on Twitter. Christian conservatives are freaking out.Read More

When a non-transgender person is doing something that many transgender women find painful and offensive, there is a particularly rape-y vibe to being told "Hush, they're just doing their thing."Read More

A large, off-the-record LGBT donor conference has been moved from a Brunei-owned hotel after that country moved to implement Sharia law, which calls for homosexuality to be punished by stoning.Read More

While many biblical scholars have ignored non-canonical texts like the gnostic and apocryphal gospels that suggested Jesus had a wife, they are now not ignoring the 2012 discovery of a faded fragment of papyrus that suggests he did.Read More

A new study suggests that we've reached "peak beard" - the tipping point where beards are no longer unusual enough for people to find them attractive - and that the pendulum will now swing in the other direction.Read More

Almost 20 cab drivers in Cleveland are refusing to drive cars displaying ads for the upcoming Gay Games, citing religious objections. But this time the protesters aren't Christian fundies, they're Muslims.Read More

According to an article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, marriage equality results in better health care and less anxiety, depression, and other negative health outcomes for families headed by same-sex parents.Read More

Clayton Pettet, a U.K. art student who made headlines for his plans to lose his virginity as an act of performance art, performed his piece earlier this month. It wasn't at all what was advertised.Read More

American LGBT people may be excited about the upcoming Harvey Milk stamp, but Finnish stamp authorities have just approved a new Tom of Finland set of stamps featuring the iconic gay artist Touko Laaksonen's homoerotic drawings.Read More

Homophobic epithets are so pervasive across our culture that most good-hearted and well-intentioned heterosexual people are sadly unaware of the psychological and physical toll that these words have on LGBTQ people.Read More

Dr. James Wright, editor of the journal Social Science Research - which published Mark Regnerus's discredited, anti-LGBT New Family Structures Study - gave extensive testimony in a Florida public records trial today.Read More

Gay is the lens through which I see and experience the world. Gay is where my joy lives. Can you understand why I find it upsetting to have something so sacred to me compared to something you don't like?Read More

Derrick Gordon, a 22-year-old sophomore shooting guard for the University of Massachusetts Minutemen, came out of the closet as a gay man today. He's the first active male NCAA Division I basketball player to do so.Read More

When many Americans think about gay people, they think of rich white guys with designer clothes. But in reality, LGBT people have higher rates of poverty and homelessness than our non-LGBT counterparts.Read More

"[I]n this particular play we show two characters carrying out a cold-blooded murder, and then we show them kissing as the motivation for the murder. You object to the kissing, but not to the fact that they're murderers?"Read More

In the last scene of the Noah story a rainbow appears representing God's promise to never destroy the earth by flood. I wanted to see two queer doves flying across the rainbow representing God's promise to us, too. Read More

Jessica Dutro, a 25-year-old Oregon woman who savagely beat her three-year-old son to death because she suspected he might be gay, was found guilty last evening of all seven charges against her.Read More

This week, in defiance of Putin's "gay propaganda" ban, Russian LGBT activists are holding a series of events - including public ones - to combat bigotry and call attention to LGBT rights violations.Read More

Cathal McCarron, a 25-year-old Irish Gaelic football star, is facing a torrent of anti-gay harassment after he allegedly appeared in two gay-for-pay porn videos posted to an adult pay-per-view website.Read More

Laws in more than 30 states criminalize people with HIV for not disclosing their status to sexual partners - from assault to attempted murder to bioterrorism. In other words, defendants are guilty of living with HIV.Read More